Stephen Hawking’s Presents Amazon Robotics

Amazon Robotics are constantly being improved to continue to improve the customer experience through automation. The Amazon Supply Chain is one of the best in the world. Get a peak how Amazon robotics improve the online giants supply chain.

“All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.” ~ Taiichi Ohno

“It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will just be one more variation that is occasionally used and mostly ignored. One must standardize, and thus stabilize the process, before continuous improvement can be made.” ~ Masaaki Imai

“Want to be on the cutting edge of supply chain innovation? Research Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning.” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com.

“To automate you should first be sure processes are standardized and documented.” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com.

“When dealing with consultants do your due diligence. To get business many promise big results but deliver little.” ~Dave Waters

“Look good in the short term but waste money in the long term by not doing true due diligence when dealing with blockchain, machine learning, IoT, big data and augmented reality.” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com

“Be aware of vaporware with blockchain, IoT, big data, and machine learning. Companies will try to rush their product to be the first mover.” ~SupplyChainToday.com

3PL Warehouse Facility Tour

From Youtube.com: Great 3PL video. The Apparel Logistics Group provides an apparel warehousing facility in an area that complements the apparel industry’s need to better serve its customers across the country, and improve its customer service levels with speed to market.

Quotes about the Digital Supply Chain.

“Although still in its infancy, drone technology will be a game changer in supply chain.” ~SupplyChainToday.com.

“Residential drone delivery is being tested by a variety of companies. From delivering packages to delivering pizza, drone delivery is in the near future.” ~SupplyChainToday.com.

“Going from PayPal, I thought, well, ‘What are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity?’ Not from the perspective, ‘What’s the best way to make money?’ which is okay, but, it was really, ‘What do I think is going to most affect the future of humanity.’” ~ Elon Musk

“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.” ~ Lee Iacocca

“Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.” ~ Tom Peters

“Blockbuster? Digital changed the way we rent movies. How will the digital supply chain impact the way we do business?” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com.

“Great companies understand the strategic importance of supply chain and want people with supply chain experience in the c-suite.” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com.

“The digital supply chain has the potential to completely change supply chain. However, do your due diligence before rushing in.” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com.

“The Internet of Things (IoT) will impact supply chain in so many ways. Either learn about it, or get left behind.” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com.

“Your dream is out there waiting for you. You just have to go out and get it.” ~Dave Waters

How Walmart Plans to Battle Amazon

Walmart and Amazon have done increased productivity tremendously through supply chain automation. These are the two giants of retail. Both companies have revolutionized supply chain and both continue to improve everyday.

More Supply Chain Automation Quotes.

“The digital supply chain has the potential to completely change supply chain. However, do your due diligence before rushing in.” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com.

“The Internet of Things (IoT) will change the supply chain. Research IoT before you get left behind.” ~SupplyChainToday.com.

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” ~ Jonh Steinbeck

“If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.” ~ Jeff Bezos, built the Amazon Supply Chain.

“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We’re nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.” ~ Larry Page

“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. I mean with artificial intelligence we’re summoning the demon.” ~ Elon Musk

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it s amazing what they can accomplish.” ~ Sam Walton, built the Walmart Supply Chain.

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~ Buckminster Fuller

“For some the digital supply chain is just a bunch of buzzwords: Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud, Drones… For others it is the future of supply chain. ~SupplyChainToday.com.

“Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen.” ~ Taiichi Ohno

“One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.” ~Jeff Bezos, CEO Amazon.

“Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.” ~Ingvar Kamprad, CEO IKEA.

“I have always been driving to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been.” ~Sam Walton, CEO Walmart.

More Supply Chain Automation Quotes.

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~ Albert Einstein

“The digital supply chain has the potential to completely change supply chain. However, do your due diligence before rushing in.” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com.

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” ~ Jonh Steinbeck

“The Internet of Things (IoT) will impact supply chain in so many ways. Either learn about it, or get left behind.” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com.

“I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‘Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?’” ~ Elon Musk

“Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.” ~ William Pollard

“All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.” ~ Taiichi Ohno

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~ Albert Einstein

DHL makes augmented reality a standard in logistics

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” ~ Socrates.

“Going from PayPal, I thought, well, ‘What are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity?’ Not from the perspective, ‘What’s the best way to make money?’ which is okay, but, it was really, ‘What do I think is going to most affect the future of humanity.’” ~ Elon Musk.

“The Internet of Things (IoT) will impact supply chain in so many ways. Either learn about it, or get left behind.” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com.

“I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing.” ~ Thomas Edison.

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” ~ Jonh Steinbeck.

“Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.” ~ William Pollard.

“You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that’s wrong with it and fix it. Seek negative feedback, particularly from friends.” ~ Elon Musk.